Abstract

This letter introduces a method to perform frequency dependence of radar cross section for either simple or complex scatters in terms of model measurement. To do so, the expressions of physical scale factor based on the electromagnetic similarity are suggested by means of dimensional analysis, geometric and physical optics approximation. Using the results of model measurement within a small range of frequency, the frequency dependence of an arbitrarily shaped scatterer can be obtained. For the purpose of verification and comparison, some measurements of simple and complex shapes have been carried out. The calculated results agree well with the experimental data on the prototype itself.